[gentoo-dev] rc6:emerge system ignores "packages" ?

[gentoo-dev] rc6:emerge system ignores "packages" ?

[Peter Kadau]

hi !

i'm really stuck !

did a bootstrap with the rc6 using the iso-image,
which i enhanced with a snapshot of my portage-tree.
the bootstrap worked fine.
then i edited packages to my needs.
but emerge --pretend system keeps telling me 
that it's about to merge things like xfree -
and that's just plain ridiculous for a base system.

so, do i have to merge everything by hand in order ?
any clues ?

thanks and ciao
peter

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Re: [gentoo-dev] rc6:emerge system ignores "packages" ?

[Chad Huneycutt]

Peter Kadau wrote:

>but emerge --pretend system keeps telling me 
>that it's about to merge things like xfree -
>and that's just plain ridiculous for a base system.
>
It is most likely your USE flags.  I know for sure that "tex" will cause 
xfree to be built, but based on some recent comments I have seen, there 
may be another offending flag as well (maybe a new package in system for 
rc6 that has a conditional dependence on xfree?).

Chad

Re: [gentoo-dev] rc6:emerge system ignores "packages" ?

[Daniel Robbins]

On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 01:12:53PM -0400, Chad Huneycutt wrote:
> Peter Kadau wrote:
> 
> >but emerge --pretend system keeps telling me 
> >that it's about to merge things like xfree -
> >and that's just plain ridiculous for a base system.
> >
> It is most likely your USE flags.  I know for sure that "tex" will cause 
> xfree to be built, but based on some recent comments I have seen, there 
> may be another offending flag as well (maybe a new package in system for 
> rc6 that has a conditional dependence on xfree?).

It may be tcltk.

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Daniel Robbins					<drobbins@gentoo.org>
Chief Architect/President			http://www.gentoo.org 
Gentoo Technologies, Inc.			

Re: [gentoo-dev] rc6:emerge system ignores "packages" ?

[Karl Trygve Kalleberg]

On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 06:56:39PM +0200, Peter Kadau wrote:
> hi !
> 
> i'm really stuck !
> 
> did a bootstrap with the rc6 using the iso-image,
> which i enhanced with a snapshot of my portage-tree.
> the bootstrap worked fine.
> then i edited packages to my needs.
> but emerge --pretend system keeps telling me 
> that it's about to merge things like xfree -
> and that's just plain ridiculous for a base system.
> 
> so, do i have to merge everything by hand in order ?
> any clues ?

I too find it a bit distracting that xfree is merged as part of the base
system. I do not however see how we can have xfree not be installed if the
use flags claim some of the apps should be compiled with x11 support.

Did we get some DONTUSE functionality yet ?

Regards,

Karl T

Re: [gentoo-dev] rc6:emerge system ignores "packages" ?

[Dan Armak]

> I too find it a bit distracting that xfree is merged as part of the base
> system. I do not however see how we can have xfree not be installed if the
> use flags claim some of the apps should be compiled with x11 support.
We traced down the xfree-in-base-system problem a few days ago. The culprit 
was gpm. The problem is afaik fixed on cvs.

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Dan Armak
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team
Matan, Israel